I started to do a search as I recall this subject coming up once before but it just brought up too many entries.

The poles on my camper are the ordinary old galvanised ones and are starting to look a little tatty as the last few trips have been in the rain and they have been put away wet. Some of them have a powdery coating on them that comes off all over the canvas and looks crappy.

There was a good thread back a ways where people discussed ways of protecting your poles.

Granted, it aint like conditioning the poles with vanilla or anything But I don't find it too intrusive. I also use it to oil timber decking around the BBQ and haven't noticed any residual smell apart from the odd burnt T-Bone I don't regard the smell of Lanotec to be any more noticable then that of WD40, being a more natural base (ie Lanolin - sheep), I think I'd prefer the Lanotech odour over that of a peterolium by-product.Besides, I hear the odour of the Lanotec is favoured by our counterparts on the other side of the Tasman

Thinking back, I'm pretty sure I picked it up rom Bunnings, there's a pretty big range in the Lanotec products.If not, I'm sure other manufactures use Lanolin as a base, so there ought to be something on the shelf that is similar.